Article snippet: NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan told a judge Tuesday night that they are considering inserting themselves into a lawsuit filed last week by President Donald Trump that argued he cannot be criminally investigated while in office. The unusual court filing suggested that the president’s own Justice Department could take a position on a sweeping constitutional argument by Trump and his lawyers that has not been tested in a court. It could also put the department in the middle of a larger dispute between Trump and the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has issued a subpoena demanding eight years of the president’s personal and corporate returns. Last week, Trump’s lawyers filed a lawsuit seeking to block the subpoena, arguing that releasing his tax returns would cause “irreparable harm.” The federal prosecutors said in the three-page filing that they backed the president’s request for a temporary delay on the subpoena so that they could decide whether the government would offer an opinion on the “weighty constitutional issues” raised by the president’s lawyers. “In view of those constitutional issues and the federal interests that they may implicate, the United States is currently considering whether to participate,” the office wrote. The prosecutor’s office did not take a position on the merits of Trump’s argument. It was unclear why the government chose to weigh in so late on a case in which it has had no formal role. But any potential involvem... Link to the full article to read more